If we are truely lucky, we happen to find a few individuals in our lives that we have been able to call "friends". Growing up in a military family I was thrust into a world where friends often came and went in my life. Knowing nothing else, it seemed as natural to me as anything else. How can one appreciate the value of friendship when so many of them are there today and gone tomorrow so quickly? I think I had a hard time knowing the difference between saying goodbye and expendability.

Yet there were a few of them that changed my life forever. Each of them for different reasons. Each of them I still think about today. Often.

There were a few that I had kept in contact with over the years, but eventually the contact became less and less frequent. And pretty soon any real source I had to get back in touch became outdated and unusable. I regret that so much to this day.

Suddenly it became important to me to find them again. Where are they now? Who are they now? What was going on in their lives? Did they share the same fond memories that I so often think about?

Putting my talents to work, I set off to find out where many of them were. Working in the field of web development, I felt it would be rather easy to come up with at least a few names from the past. Weeks of searching turned into months. And it soon became apparent to me that finding them via the web was turning up very little.

Feeling very frustrated, I decided to come up with an alternative idea. If I couldn't find them on the web...perhaps I could provide a way they could find me instead. In todays world, I find it hard to believe that most of these friends I knew wouldn't eventually get on the web and start looking around. How could I get them to find me? Well...it's been my experience that most of us on the web are curious to know how much is out there about ourselves. How many of us have done a search for our own name to discover what comes up? Okay..call me weird, I have several times. I was amazed to find out just how much on me is out there. So why couldn't it work for getting a hold of some old friends?

That is my hope. One of you...all of you...will eventually find me here. And for those of you that I know, if you don't find yourself on the list, it is not because I do not consider you a dear friend. I either know where to find you already...or have not yet added you to the ever growing list here.